UPON JULIA’S RIBBON (Robert Herrick Poems)
As shews the air when with a rain-bow graced, So smiles that ribbon 'bout my Julia's waist; Or like----Nay, 'tis ...
Robert Herrick Poems (298 Poems)
LOVE LIGHTLY PLEASED (Robert Herrick Poem)
Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, ...
THE PRIMROSE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ask me why I send you here This sweet Infanta of the year? Ask me why I send to you ...
TO DIANEME (Robert Herrick Poem)
I could but see thee yesterday Stung by a fretful bee; And I the javelin suck'd away, And heal'd the ...
ON A PERFUMED LADY (Robert Herrick Poem)
You say you're sweet: how should we know Whether that you be sweet or no? --From powders and perfumes keep ...
THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER:SUNG BY THE VIRGINS (Robert Herrick Poems)
O thou, the wonder of all days! O paragon, and pearl of praise! O Virgin-martyr, ever blest Above the rest ...
CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS EVE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Down with the rosemary and bays, Down with the misletoe; Instead of holly, now up-raise The greener box, for show. ...
TO HIS SAVIOUR, A CHILD;A PRESENT, BY A CHILD (Robert Herrick Poem)
Go, pretty child, and bear this flower Unto thy little Saviour; And tell him, by that bud now blown, He ...
UPON CUPID (Robert Herrick Poem)
Love, like a gipsy, lately came, And did me much importune To see my hand, that by the same He ...
FELICITY QUICK OF FLIGHT (Robert Herrick Poem)
Every time seems short to be That's measured by felicity; But one half-hour that's made up here With grief, seems ...
TO ANTHEA (Robert Herrick Poem)
Anthea, I am going hence With some small stock of innocence; But yet those blessed gates I see Withstanding entrance ...
HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST (Robert Herrick Poem)
These springs were maidens once that loved, But lost to that they most approved: My story tells, by Love they ...
THE LILY IN A CRYSTAL (Robert Herrick Poem)
You have beheld a smiling rose When virgins' hands have drawn O'er it a cobweb-lawn: And here, you see, this ...
THE OLIVE BRANCH (Robert Herrick Poem)
Sadly I walk'd within the field, To see what comfort it would yield; And as I went my private way, ...
UPON JULIA’S RECOVERY (Robert Herrick Poems)
Droop, droop no more, or hang the head, Ye roses almost withered; Now strength, and newer purple get, Each here ...
ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA (Robert Herrick Poem)
When I behold a forest spread With silken trees upon thy head; And when I see that other dress Of ...
MRS ELIZ: WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF THELOST SHEPHERDESS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Among the myrtles as I walk'd Love and my sighs thus intertalk'd: Tell me, said I, in deep distress, Where ...
A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK (Robert Herrick Poem)
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
Oberon’s Feast (Robert Herrick Poems)
Hapcot! To thee the Fairy State I with discretion, dedicate. Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. Take ...
TO MEADOWS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ye have been fresh and green, Ye have been fill'd with flowers; And ye the walks have been Where maids ...
The Bellman (Robert Herrick Poem)
From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From murders Benedicite. From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in ...
KISSING USURY (Robert Herrick Poem)
Biancha, let Me pay the debt I owe thee for a kiss Thou lend'st to me; And I to thee ...
THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR, THE UNGENTLE GUEST (Robert Herrick Poem)
One silent night of late, When every creature rested, Came one unto my gate, And knocking, me molested. Who's that, ...
I CALL AND I CALL (Robert Herrick Poem)
I call, I call: who do ye call? The maids to catch this cowslip ball! But since these cowslips fading ...
NO MAN WITHOUT MONEY (Robert Herrick Poem)
No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim, If favour or occasion help not him. (Robert Herrick)
THE MAD MAID’S SONG (Robert Herrick Poems)
Good morrow to the day so fair; Good morning, sir, to you; Good morrow to mine own torn hair, Bedabbled ...
AN ODE TO SIR CLIPSBY CREW (Robert Herrick Poem)
Here we securely live, and eat The cream of meat; And keep eternal fires, By which we sit, and do ...
TO THE WATER-NYMPHS DRINKING AT THEFOUNTAIN (Robert Herrick Poem)
Reach with your whiter hands to me Some crystal of the spring; And I about the cup shall see Fresh ...
HER BED (Robert Herrick Poem)
See'st thou that cloud as silver clear, Plump, soft, and swelling every where? 'Tis Julia's bed, and she sleeps there. ...
TO CARNATIONS: A SONG (Robert Herrick Poem)
Stay while ye will, or go, And leave no scent behind ye: Yet trust me, I shall know The place ...